This section from the chapter ‘Sacrifices, sacred feasts, farming and festivities’ explores customs and rituals around ...

Fall bucket list Wedged between sweltering summer and frigid winter (and without spring’s tendency toward rain), fall is many people’s favorite season. With back-to-school, the first day of fall, ...

The butter cow is one of the most iconic items on display at the entrance. As the name suggests, it's a cow called Mel made of butter, along with Margie the dog, punchy the goat, and Jojo the calf.

The exhibit also has dairy cow replicas made of fiberglass that allow people to simulate milking a cow. "My goal with this area is to help our fair attendees learn a little bit about agriculture ...

The case at hand: Victim: one sea cow, genus Culebratherium—perhaps 16 feet long, although the fossil isn’t well enough preserved for the researchers to be sure. Time of death: early to mid ...

Rare fossilized sea cow unearthed by a local farmer in Venezuela appears to have been killed by a croc then eaten by a tiger shark. Scientists have revealed the fossilized remains of a prehistoric ...

The latter left one of its teeth impaled in the sea cow’s body. By analyzing the fossil, unearthed in Venezuela, researchers were able to piece together how the sea cow, which belonged to an ...